Ernst Maug has been professor for Corporate Finance at the University of Mannheim since February 2006. He was Professor of Business Administration at the Department of Business and Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In his previous positions he served as Assistant Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University from 1996 to 2000. He held a similar position at the London Business School, where he taught from 1993 to 1996. He taught a range of courses from introductory MBA level to senior executive programs. Professor Maug obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1993, where he was a member of the Financial Markets Group. His main research interest is in the theory of corporate finance with a particular emphasis on corporate governance. Recent work analyzes the relationship between the stock market and governance by large shareholders, insider trading legislation, shareholder voting, companies' strategies to divest, and compensation for executives and portfolio managers. His research was published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and the European Economic Review.

Dittmann, Ingolf, Ernst Maug, and Dan Zhang, 2011, Restricting CEO Pay, Journal of Corporate Finance 17, pp. 1200-1220

Naik, Narayanan and Ernst Maug, 2011, Herding and Delegated Portfolio Management: The Impact of Relative Performance Evaluation on Asset Allocation, Quarterly Journal of Finance 1, pp. 265-292

Maug, Ernst and Bernd Albrecht, 2011, Structure and Level of Executive Compensation: Facts and Myths, Schmalenbach Business Review 63, pp. 858-881

Dittmann, Ingolf, Ernst Maug, and Oliver Spalt, 2010, Sticks or Carrots? Optimal CEO Compen sation when Managers are Loss-Averse, Journal of Finance 65, pp. 2015-2050 (Lead article)

Dittmann, Ingolf, Ernst Maug, and Christoph Schneider, 2010, Bankers on the Boards of German Firms: What they do, what they are worth, and why they are (still) there, Review of Finance 14, pp. 35-71

Maug, Ernst and Kristian Rydqvist, 2009, Do Shareholders Vote Strategically? Voting Behavior, Proposal Screening, and Majority Rules, Review of Finance 13, pp. 47-79

Dittmann, Ingolf, Ernst Maug, Christoph Schneider, 2008, How Preussag became TUI: A Clinical Study of Institutional Blockholders and Restructuring in Europe, Financial Management 37, pp. 571-598

Güth, Werner, Ernst Maug, and Sabine Kröger, 2008, You may have to do it again, Rocky! An Experimental Analysis of Bargaining with Risky Joint Profits, New Zealand Economic Papers (forthcoming in Special Issue on Experimental Economics)

Dittmann, Ingolf and Ernst Maug, 2007, Lower Salaries and No Options: The Optimal Structure of Executive Pay, Journal of Finance 62, pp. 303-343

Maug, Ernst, 2006, Efficiency and Fairness in Minority Freezeouts: Takeovers, Overbidding, and the Freeze-in Problem, International Review of Law and Economics 26, pp. 355-379

Dittmann, Ingolf, Johannes Kemper, and Ernst Maug, 2004, How Fundamental are Fundamental Values? Valuation Methods and Their Impact on the Performance of German Venture Capitalists, European Financial Management 10, pp. 609-638

Maug, Ernst and Bilge Yilmaz, 2002, Two-class voting: A Mechanism for conflict resolution in bankruptcy, American Economic Review 92, pp. 1448-1471

Maug, Ernst, 2002, Insider Trading Legislation and Corporate Governance, European Economic Review 46, pp. 1569-1597

Maug, Ernst, 2001, Optimal Ownership Structure and the Life Cycle of the Firm: A Theory of the Decision to Go Public, European Finance Review 5, pp. 167-200

Maug, Ernst, 2000, The Relative Performance Puzzle, Schmalenbach's Business Review 52, pp. 3-24

Maug, Ernst, 1998, Large Shareholders as Monitors: Is There a Tradeoff between Liquidity and Control? Journal of Finance 53, pp. 65-98

Maug, Ernst, 1997, Boards of Directors and Capital Structure: Alternative Forms of Corporate Restructuring, Journal of Corporate Finance 3, pp. 113-139

Maug, Ernst, 1996, Corporate Control and the Market for Managerial Labour - On the Decision to go Public, European Economic Review 40, pp. 1049-1056

Degeorge, Francois and Ernst Maug, 2008, Corporate Finance in Europe – A Survey, chapter 7 in: Xavier Freixas, Philipp Hartmann, and Colin Mayer: Handbook of European Financial Markets and Institutions, Oxford University Press

Güth, Werner and Ernst Maug, 2007, Who Volunteers? A Theory of Firms Allowing for Intrinsically Motivated Agents, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Special Issue, 49-74

Dittmann Ingolf and Ernst Maug, 2005, Warum optimale Anreizverträge keine Optionen enthalten, chapter 1 in: Wolfgang Franz, Hans Jürgen Ramser, and Manfred Stadler: Funktionsfähigkeit und Stabilität von Finanzmärkten, Mohr Siebeck

Maug, Ernst, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, and Evgenia Zhivotova, 2012, Pride and Prestige: Why Some Firms Pay Their CEOs Less

Dittmann, Ingolf, Ernst Maug, and Oliver Spalt, 2010, Indexing Executive Compensation Contracts

Klein, Daniel and Ernst Maug, 2010, How do Executives Exercise Stock Options?

Daske, Holger, Jörn van Halteren, and Ernst Maug, 2010, Evaluating Methods to Estimate the Implied Cost of Equity Capital: A Simulation Study

Dittmann, Ingolf, Dorothea Kübler, Ernst Maug, and Lydia Mechtenberg, 2010, Why Votes have a Value

Lebedeva, Olga,  Ernst Maug, and Christoph Schneider, 2009, Stealth Trading by Corporate Insiders

Ackerman, Abraham, Jörn van Halteren, and Ernst Maug, 2008, Insider Trading Legislation and Acquisition Announcements: Do Laws Matter?

Dittmann, Ingolf and Ernst Maug, 2007, Biases and Error Measures: How to compare Valuation Methods

Return Decompositions Using Implied Cost of Capital Methods (with Jörn van Halteren and Jan Siewert)

The Impact of Investor Sentiment on Stock Prices: Mispricing or Time-varying Risk Premia? (with Jan Siewert)

Measuring the Quality of Corporate Governance: Is There a Uniform Standard? (joint with Kristine Quadflieg)

Restructuring and the Participation of Labor in Corporate Governance (with E. Han Kim and Christoph Schneider)